How we choose to spend our education dollars (Community Voices) « Oakland Local

Last month, the publication Education Week released its annual “Quality Counts” report that, not surprisingly, showed once again California is at the very bottom in the nation for per-pupil spending. California came in 49th, having spent $8,482 on each student in 2010, $3,342 below the national average. This ranking is bound to change in the coming years with the passage of Proposition 30 and the increases to education spending recently enacted by Governor Brown. Yet, even adding $2,700 per pupil by 2016-2017, as the governor has proposed, will result in California continuing to remain below the national per student spending median for the foreseeable future.